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Stuart ERWIN - Vaw MERKEL William FRAWLEY - Edgar KENNEDY Jack CARSON · Wally VERHON Edward KROPHY - WOza DAVIDSON

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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 9, 1941

REPORTED FINNISH ADVANCE REGARDED AS OF IMPORTANCE

TWO IMPORTANT supply routes be-

tween the Soviet North and Western Russia DRIVE TO appear, on the surface to be threatened by MAKE

the Finnish advance to the River Svir between

Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega, which is TANKS

claimed by the German and Finnish Com- mands.

The exact point at which the Finns have reached the river is not given, nor is the strength of their hold clear, but if the report is true, the advance is of some importance, writes "Annalist.”

The Stalin Canal, main water. way link between the White Sea und Western Russia follows the channel of the Svir between the Lakes, The railway south from Murmansk crosses the Svir,

DIED WITH

BOY SHE ADORED

Thirteen-ton green-tur- reted tanks are coming off the final assembly line of the American Car and Foundry Company's plant at the rate of 10 per day.

They are now rapidly provid ing the sinews for the seven arm- oured divisions which the United States Army plans to have fully equipped within the year,

Two facts about tank produc- tion here are particularly inter- It is evidently the hope of the

esting. They are being turned out by industrial plants which Finns, besides severing these com- munications, which would be a

The story of a woman's completed their first tank on May

1, 1940. blow to two ways into Russia of| Allied supplies, to join up with love and devotion for an

Secondly, these manufacturers,

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the Germans to the east and orphaned boy lies behind to avoid any bottle-neck in the south-east of Leningrad, where the Nazis have not yet arrived the burial of a grand-deliveries of

tion from Moscow.

armoured plates, units and

according to the latest informa- mother and grandson in have built their own

now produce approximately 1,000

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the same grave at the Old tons of armour-plate per month. Not even this junction, if and Cemetery, Southampton. when made, would cut off all

Robert James Selman's parents the Russians' northern parts.

he was a child; his from the interior. There la still died when

Minnie Sel- Archangel, which has good rail- grandmother, Mrs. way running due south to Mos- man, cared for him as if he were cow 250 miles away from the her own son. She regarded his up- bringing as a satred trust which nearest Germans.

she owed to her dead son, Bob's father.

Moscow Silent

Moscow has hitherto been silent on the Finns' reported advance, which appears on the surface to dispel doubts as to whether Mar- shal Mannerheim, in his recent Order of the Day, Intended his troops to continue the offensive battle alongside their German "allies" after having reached in the Karelian Isthmus the former Soviet-Finnish frontier.

his

Bob grew up a credit to grandmother. He won a scholar- ship to a secondary school, where he distinguished himself both in the classroom and on the sports- field.

When war damè, Bób, theй twenty-one, joined the R.A.F. He became a sergeant air gun- nor,

grand- but to spare his mother worry, he kept secret from her the fact that he flew. He led her to belleve he was on the ground staff.

"If anything happened to Bob The Isthmus lies on the opposite it will be the finish of me," Mrs. side of Lake Ladoga to the River Selman, who was sixty-nine, often Svir. Above the Svir, other told friends.

Perhaps even / more. Important Is the steady and efficient man- ner in which several thousand workmen labour in half a dozen. different-buildings to keep the Berwick out-put:up to capacity. Tanks which I saw at all stages construction symbolise the

Américan of adjustability dustry.

of

MUSIC FOR

THE NIGHT SHIFT

in...

An experiment is to be made by the B.B.C. to test the desirability of broad- Finnish forces began an offen- A few days ago Bob was killed casting more music to

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sive four days ago, It now appears, in an air crash. When the news against Petrozovodsk, ** and It reached his grandmother she was factories as a means of seems to have carried them with prostrated with grief and shock. increasing the efficiency surprising speed in difficult forest Next day she died. country past that point to the Svir.

Petrozovodsk. which lies on the eastern bank of Lake Onega, has not been taken.

The Inscription on a wreath of war-time production. at the funeral was Gone with Bob, she lived for him for him."

died

Broadcasts for night shifts is one of the developments contem- plated

MURDER S.O.S. IN twice-daily broadcasts of Music

CINEMA

It is reasonable to suppose that if the Finns have in fact, reached the Svir, the Russians have with- drawn their lines between Lakes Onega and Ladoga while obviously keeping guard over the Police investigating the murder Murmansk Railway and the Stalin of George Thomas Roberts, 50; Canal-parallel with their earlier manager of the Plaza Cinema, withdrawal

Isthmus, Reuter.

During the week factories which relay to their workers the While You Work" will be asked to report on the effects on produc tion of music by light orchestrás, dance bands, military bands and cirema organs, and to assess the value of vocalists, including croon- era and what the B.B.C. describe the Karellan Dover, used the screen of the as rousing vocalists."

"Music While You Work" broad- cinema to help them.

At all performances this mer-casts began nearly a year ago. sage was flashed upon the Some factories, installed as many

as 200 loudspeakers, E screen:

"Any person who was a patron One firm reported to the B.B.C. of this cinema on Thursday, and that, with suitable programmes who changed a pound or ten-shill-they would be able to reduce over- ing note at the pay-desk, is asked time by half. A warehouse. to communicate with the man-ported an increase of work

between 10 and 15 per cent. ager."

PARSON NOT INNOCENT

Saying that the girl had fully justified her charges, the Lord Chief Justice dismissed with costs the action brought by the Rev. James Irwin Stoops, of The Manse, Maguire's Bridge, Co. Fermanagh, claiming damages for slander against his former servant for alleging he was the father of her

Stoops's case was that Bella Jane Wilson, 28 of Kilmakirk, Co. Fermanagh stated at a meeting of the Clodher Presbytery,: which was investigating charges against. him, that he was the father of the children born in July 1839.

As a result the Presbytery sus- pended him,

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